And, I Mean, I Think Poetry Does

That's Just How I See Things On A Base Level: There's So Much Going On. Or At Least I Like To Have That Feeling. It's Part Of Being Interested In Notions Of Reality Apart From Storytelling. I Don't Know If It Has Something To Do With Having An Art School Education, Which Makes You Aware Of The Way Visuals Speak, Or Makes You Trust Them More.

But Short Films Are Not Inferior, Just Different. I Think The Short Gives A Freedom To Film-makers. What's Appealing Is That You Don't Have As Much Responsibility For Storytelling And Plot. They Can Be More Like A Portrait, Or A Poem.

I'm Someone Who Loves To Play. I Make Films So I Can Have Fun With The Characters.

If You Read Keats's Poems, They're Often Full Of Doubts And Anxieties. They Can Be Quite Tough.

With 'bright Star' And With 'the Piano,' Too, I Felt A Kind Of Sadness About It Being In Such A Different Era, Because Of My Lack Of Experience With The Era. And One Of The Ways I'd Get Over It Is To Remind Myself That Every Film, Even If It's Contemporary, Creates Its Own World.